Huawei designates release date for new flagship RM10,878 folding Mate X
ACCORDING to a report published by GizmoChina this week, the Huawei Mate X will hit the consumer market in June starting at about US$ 2,590 ( RM10,878).
GizmoChina reported that the folding Huawei Mate X was temporarily listed on the company website, revealing that the smartphone will go on sale this June.
In addition to the Mate X being the company’s very first device with a flexible display, it will also be the first Huawei device to support 5G.
The smartphone’s main competitor, the Samsung Galaxy Fold, will be going on sale this month on Apr 26 for US$ 1,980 ( RM8,316) and will come with a complementary pair of wireless Galaxy Buds. There will be two versions of the device available, an LTE and 5G version, making it the second model to be compatible with 5G by the company.
Huawei’s Mate X, when unfolded, measures in at eight inches while the Galaxy Fold’s display is 7.3-inches. When folded, the displays are 6.6-inches and 4.6-inches, respectively. Both will have the same amount of storage, though the Galaxy Fold will come with an extra 4 GB of RAM, bringing the total up to 12 GB.
In terms of power, the Mate X will be run by the company’s Kirin 980 chipset and the Galaxy Fold will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 like a handful of other flagship devices such as Sony’s Xperia 1, Xiaomi’s Mi 9, and OnePlus’ OnePlus 7 and 7T.
The markets in which the Huawei Mate X will be launched have not yet been specified, but tensions between the company and the US strongly suggest that the device will not be launched there. Samsung’s Galaxy Fold will be available in the US starting later this month and in Europe on May 3. — Relaxnews